TONE3000 has spent the previous couple of years constructing what it claims is the world’s largest library of guitar tones. And we’ve been massively impressed after we’ve used it. Now, as a substitute of creating you hunt them down one after the other, it’s placing the entire thing inside a plugin.

The corporate has launched the free, open-source TONE3000 plugin, giving guitarists and bassists direct entry to greater than 700,000 Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) captures and Impulse Responses (IRs) from inside their DAW – or by way of a standalone app.

Till now, utilizing a tone from TONE3000 concerned slightly extra work than you may anticipate: discover the seize on-line, obtain it, unzip it, organise the file and cargo it right into a separate NAM plugin. Wish to strive one other? You’ll need to do all of it once more.

The brand new plugin cuts out that faff. Musicians can now browse TONE3000’s library from contained in the plugin, with captures protecting amps, pedals, speaker cupboards, full rigs, outboard gear, acoustic areas and even some bizarre experimental setups.

Log into your TONE3000 account and you may also entry your saved favourites, not too long ago used tones, your individual creations and personal tones with out leaving the plugin.

And since the library is continually rising, you don’t have to attend for a plugin replace to get your arms on new sounds. Each new tone added to TONE3000 turns into obtainable by way of the plugin instantly, with no further buy required.

In contrast to the standard amp-sim mannequin, the place you purchase a plugin and get a set assortment of sounds, right here, the TONE3000 plugin acts extra like a gateway to a library that retains increasing because the group provides to it.

Beneath the hood, all the things is powered by NAM A2, the newest era of Neural Amp Modeler expertise developed by TONE3000 with NAM creator Steve Atkinson. For the uninitiated, NAM is free, open-source expertise that makes use of AI to mannequin analogue gear by studying from recordings of bodily amps, pedals and different tools.

“As a result of the TONE3000 Plugin is open supply, proper now could be the worst it can ever be,” says the corporate’s co-founder and CEO Stanley Vergilis. “We’re excited to see what the group does with it.”

“With A2 we made captures dramatically extra correct, however accuracy doesn’t matter if loading a tone is a chore,” provides TONE3000 co-founder and CTO Woodbury Shortridge. “The plugin is the place the structure, the group library, and gamers lastly meet in a single place. Each layer is open supply by design. We’re betting the way forward for tone belongs to the folks creating it, to not whoever owns the expertise.”

The plugin additionally goes significantly additional than merely being a tone browser. You may stack limitless NAM A2 captures and IRs to construct sign chains, run twin chains with branching and panning, create stereo photos and apply EQ at completely different factors within the chain.

The TONE3000 plugin is on the market now for macOS, Home windows and Linux, with VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP and LV2 help, in addition to a standalone model. It really works with main DAWs together with Ableton Reside, Logic Professional, Professional Instruments, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper and Bitwig Studio.

And, importantly, it’s free. In fact, if you wish to take these tones into the actual world, there are myriad choices, from Blackstar’s spectacular BEAM observe amp, to the extra gig-ready state of affairs of Headrush’s full steady of amp modelling pedals – NAM is actually taking up the world of guitar modelling in 2026.

Obtain the plugin at the moment at TONE3000.